The Contours of Worship

In Salt Lake Valley, where I lived for six years during the early 1990s, mountain topography and temperature differentials often…

Peter Anderson

Stirring Dull Roots

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with…

Newton Garver

God Is in the Mouth of the Wolf

I think I must have been born searching for God. People tell me that just as my head crowned during…

Charles David Kleymeyer

Retreating with Thich Nhat Hanh

Early in the summer of 2003 my Friend Tina learned that Thich Nhat Hanh was going to lead a one-day…

Phyllis Hoge

The AFSC and School Desegregation

Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1959-1964 The involvement of the Religious Society of Friends in Prince Edward County dates back to…

Betsy Brinson

Repentance and Return

I have been carrying a burden of shame for a gross error in judgment. It creeps up on me at…

Lisa Rand

No Doubt

Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. (Jer. 31:3) I don’t usually feel sleepy in meeting for worship,…

Anonymous

Religious Faith and Civil Liberties

This month marks the 50th anniversary of a conference on civil liberties held at Scattergood School in West Branch, Iowa,…

Anonymous

Being 'Of the World'

This month Friends Journal brings you a selection of articles that deal with engagement in the world. Some authors may…

Robert Dockhorn

Questions Surrounding Abortion

Abortion is a tragic and divisive issue in our country and in our Religious Society. Much of our lack of…

Mary Beth Keiter

Letter to My Grandchildren

Dear grandchildren, Ever since the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York over two years ago, I have…

Margaret Hope Bacon

An Iconoclast's View of Quaker Outreach

While I am honored to be giving the Rufus Jones lecture this evening, by choosing to invite me, Haverford College…

Signe Wilkinson

Sit Down, Thee's Rockin' the Boat

An attender has been speaking in meeting for ten minutes. He reaches in his pocket, pulls out a newspaper article,…

Robert A. Callard

Interpreting Religious Experience

Quakers do not get religion secondhand, but aim always to be experiential, to wait upon the Light, and then to…

Patricia A. Williams

How I Learned to Mind My Own Business and Get Out of God's Way

She walks into the classroom. Her hair hangs carelessly like a curtain around her face. She is wearing blue jeans…

Shari Dinkins

The Conflict over Abolition Activism: What Can We Learn from It?

In 2002, Westbury (N.Y.) Meeting celebrated 300 years of meetinghouses on its site. As coordinator of the celebration, part of…

Gretchen Haynes

Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…